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Thursday, March 23, 2017

Your
favorite Smurfs buddies – Hefty, Brainy and Clumsy – and rivals
Papa Smurf and Gargamel, are back in Columbia Pictures
Animation's Smurfs: The Lost Village, the fully animated,
all-new take on the Smurfs. Learn more about their characters and the
actors playing them in the following descriptions.

Hefty
(Joe Manganiello) is that guy who hits the gym twice a day
and will make sure you know about it. But just when you think he’s
hard core, he shows you that he’s just a big softie inside. “True
Blood” and Magic Mike’s Joe Manganiello voices the role of the
blue hunk. “Hefty is the coolest, strongest Smurf in Smurf
Village,” says Manganiello.

Manganiello
was excited to be a part of the movie in order to share it with his
young family. “What I love about this movie is that it returns to
the look that my generation all remember as kids, so it’s nostalgic
for adults – but it’s also going to usher in an entire new
generation, including my two-year-old niece, who loves the Smurfs and
is going to get to see her uncle play Hefty.”

Clumsy
(Jack McBrayer) is all heart… and all thumbs. He’s
always eager to lend a helping hand or pitch in however he can –
even if it might have been better if he’d just stayed home.
Luckily, his good intentions and wide-eyed wonder make whatever mess
he’s made utterly forgivable, and in the end, he always impresses
us all. “He’s such a good fella – the kind of guy you want on
your team, so long as your team doesn’t require hand-eye
coordination or grace or ability,” McBrayer says. “If you need
somebody with team spirit, Clumsy is your Smurf.”

Brainy
(Danny Pudi). When the chips are down, there’s no more
resourceful Smurf with a better idea to solve the problem.“Brainy’s
the whiz kid on Team Smurf. He’s always trying to figure out how to
solve a problem,” Pudi says. “He can get hyper-focused at times,
but he has a very good heart and he does it for his friends.”

Papa
Smurf (Mandy Patinkin). Kind and warm, Papa Smurf’s number
one concern is the safety and well-being of the Smurfs and his
beloved Smurf Village. “Papa is the patriarch of the Smurfs – he
really cares about each and every one of them,” says Patinkin. “You
might say he’s Papa Bear – even a little overbearing at times –
but he’ll always be there for Team Smurf.”

Gargamel
(Rainn Wilson). Equal parts dangerous and idiotic, Gargamel
is the grandiose, self-important, iconic foil of the Smurfs. All he
craves in this life is to be celebrated and revered as the most
powerful wizard in the world, but the greatest obstacle standing in
his way is his incredible ineptitude.

“I’ve
been a Smurf fan from the get-go – I even remember the graphic
novels from way back,” says Rainn Wilson – Dwight from “The
Office” – who creates the character. “I loved the cartoon and
Gargamel was always my favorite character. I always related to him –
what can I say? Gargamel is greatly misunderstood and needs a little
love.”

Opening
across the Philippines on Friday, March 31, Smurfs: The Lost
Village is distributed by Columbia Pictures, local office of Sony
Pictures Releasing International.